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Walt Whitman's mystical ethics of comradeship : homosexuality and the marginality of friendship at the crossroads of modernity / Juan A. Herrero Brasas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herrero-Brasas, Juan A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poets, American--19th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Gay men--United States--Biography.
- Gay men.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Relations with men.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Friends and associates.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Recovers Walt Whitman as a self-conscious religious figure with an ethic based in male comradeship, one at odds with the temper of his times.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Literature as religion : Whitman's messianic enterprise
- The building of a reputation
- Theosophy, the occult, and Whitman's apparitions
- The character of Whitman's religion
- The creed
- The mystic hypothesis
- The strong hypothesis
- The weak hypothesis
- The denial of the hypothesis
- A gospel of beauty
- The classical roots of aestheticism
- Whitman and the platonic tradition
- From phrenology to aesthetic morality
- Whitman's treatment of the ugly : the "kosmic" vision
- Whitman and Nietzsche
- Whitman and Oscar Wilde
- The love of comrades
- A messianic mission
- The nature of comradeship
- Eduard Bertz : comradeship as veiled homosexuality
- Mystical interpretations of comradeship
- Ethical aspects of comradeship
- Religious aspects of comradeship
- Social and political aspects of comradeship
- Whitman's comradeship and Symonds's concept of Greek love
- Whitman, the moral reformer
- Poetry and ethics : Whitman's moral concern
- The character of Whitman's new morality
- An analysis of Whitman's morality : Briggs's theory
- Whitman's attitude to war
- Robert K. Martin's theory : "fucked by the earth"
- David Keubrich's theory : post-Christian millennialism
- Reynolds's theory : "immoral didacticism"
- A probable synthesis : nature, science, and evolutionary theory
- An afterthought : Traubel, homosexuality, and the Whitman myth
- A queer (theory) postscript
- A queer (theory) twist : no new species
- Whitman's disappointment and the new sexual economy
- Queer (theory) confusion and its uses.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438430126
- 1438430124
- 9781441648686
- 1441648682
- OCLC:
- 615600398
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